The 1970s and 80s felt like the golden age of safety videos - and they certainly didn't pull their punches. Railway safety videos and anti drink-drive campaigns went out to shock people away from taking risks, trying to portray the full horror of the consequences from taking a chance near a road or railway line.

The Metro safety video was criticised for several reasons, including whether the number of Metro deaths - or lack of them - actually merited a safety video, blaming the Metro for focusing on the safety video rather than passenger satisfaction, and believing accidents were caused by other reasons. But its cartoon portrayals of death are part of a long history of safety video injuries. Which of the videos below do you remember?

The BFI's The Finishing Line from 1977 was a bizarre train safety video that portrayed children crossing a railway line as part of a game organised by adults. You can see what it was trying to do, but you can only guess as to the message children got out of it.

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Next is Killing Time, from 1992. The headphones flying through the air in slow motion certainly bring back memories...

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At the other end of the scale is the Green Cross Code video series. The presence of Darth Vader - albeit actor David Prowse, and not in the costume - certainly drills road safety into the kids:

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And finally, an anti drink-drive video - one that permanently ruined In the Summertime by Mungo Jerry for this writer: